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Homecoming Powwow

Date: 1908
Description: Ho-Chunk men and women sitting and standing around a large medicine drum in an area portioned off by canvas barriers in front of a lodge. Identified as the...
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Betsy Thunder

Date: 02 06 1913
Description: Betsy Thunder, Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) medicine woman, posing in front of a painted backdrop near a prop stone wall.
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Mountain Wolf Woman

Date: 1907
Description: Studio portrait of Mountain Wolf Woman, also known as Stella Blowsnake Whitepine Stacy (HayAhChoWinKah), sitting and holding her two daughters, Josephine W...
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Portrait of Clara St. Cyr and Lucy Davis

Date: 1900
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two smiling Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) women identified as Clara St. Cyr, a Nebraska Winnebago, lef...
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Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1900
Description: Two Ho-Chunk men wearing beaded shirts are gathering cranberries (hoocake) alongside a Ho-Chunk woman and a white man and woman. A large group of cranberry...
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Flora Thundercloud Funmaker Bearheart

Date: 1910
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Flora Thundercloud Funmaker Bearheart (WaNekChaWinKah), daughter of Moheek Thundercloud (MaZheeWeeKah) an...
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Cranberry Pickers

Date: 1905
Description: Winnebago Indians and Black River Falls townspeople harvesting cranberries.
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Studio Portrait of Thomas Thunder and Wife

Date: 1915
Description: Full-length studio portrait of Thomas Thunder (HoonkHaGaKah) (Son of [WaConChaKah] John Thunder aka Dr. Thunder and [WeHonPeKaw] Lucy Bear, Thunder), and h...
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Red Cloud Park

Date: 1978
Description: Native Americans keeping the music alive. George Whitewing, a Ho Chunk musician from Wittenberg, Wisconsin, plays his drum while a crowd looks on in Red Cl...
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Native American Women on Water Street

Date: 1911
Description: A boy is standing on a snow-covered wooden sidewalk on the left, and Native American women wrapped in blankets are walking on the sidewalk on the right. Vi...
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Four Ho-Chunk People on Bridge

Date: 1911
Description: Four Ho-Chunk people crossing a bridge spanning the Black River. This photograph was taken before the flood of October 1911, when the bridge was completely...
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Cutting Roots for Medicine

Date: 09 1923
Description: Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) women cutting roots for medicine. A quilt hangs on a line in the background and a chicken walks near the women.
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Portrait of Albert A. Johnson and Annie Messie Arthur

Date: 1905
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk couple, Albert A. Johnson (HunkChoKah) and Annie Bessie Arthur Johnson Standingwater (WeHunKah...
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Ida Lizzie Decorra Blowsnake in Moccasins

Date: 1920
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk woman, Ida Lizzie Decorra Blowsnake (Real Wampum Woman) (WooRooShiekESkaeWinKah), ...
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Group Portrait of Ho-Chunk Family

Date: 1906
Description: Studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk family, Jim White Bear, his wife Kate, and their children (four girls and a boy). Kate White Bear and the older girls are wea...
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Pow Wow Scene

Date: 1908
Description: Drummers and dancers at pow wow led by Chief Winneshiek, below Lutheran Church in a canvas enclosure.
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Native American Powwow

Date: 1908
Description: Ho-Chunk Chief Winneshiek leads a powwow just North of Main Street in Black River Falls.
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Portrait of Marie Big Hawk and Her Baby

Date: 1936
Description: Studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk woman, Marie Big Hawk Whitewater, holding her baby Clyde White in her lap in front of a painted background. She has shoulder ...
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Portrait of Blackhawk and Louisa Mike

Date: 1925
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk couple, Blackhawk (KaRaChooSepMeKah), and his wife Louisa Mike (HumpACooWinKah). B...
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Portrait of Ho-Chunk Mother and Daughter

Date: 1910
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Annie (Katie) W. Blowsnake (MaHeHaNaSheWinKah) standing next to a woman identified as her mot...

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